Chapter 704 - Destroying Evil with Lightning

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Han Wu and Qin Shuang followed the bandit leader to his camp. They hadn’t anticipated finding an entire village!

The bandit leader was even the village chief, and his return drew the others to greet him. Their gazes lingered on Han Wu and Qin Shuang as if they were curiosities on display.

“Brother Ma, you’re back so soon. Where are the rest?”

“I think Brother Ma managed to find some quality goods and couldn’t wait any longer. Brother Ma, if you are tired, we are more than happy to help.”

“

Wow

, that lady is beautiful. She looks even stronger than the rich young mistress we kidnapped last time. I wonder if she would be good in bed too.”

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They failed to notice the horror in the bandit leader’s eyes as they continued their remarks. He was on the verge of losing his mind because the other bandits had no sense of danger at all.

Don’t they find it suspicious that I returned alone? Why are they commenting on her so openly? Do they have a death wish?

He wanted to curse them out.

If you are so eager to die, you should do it somewhere far away instead of dragging the whole village with you, idiots!

Unfortunately, he dared not speak. Han Wu’s Small Locust Blade was directly behind his back, its chilly edge grazing his skin. Each step felt like a walk through hell.

From their comments, Han Wu confirmed that this was indeed a bandit village. Not a single man here was an upstanding citizen. With that, he felt no hesitation about killing them.

Before long, the bandit leader brought them into his house. The moment they entered, Han Wu saw two naked women. They were covered in bruises and wounds and crawled forward on their knees like dogs toward the bandit leader.

Qin Shuang’s killing intent surged. She wanted to end him on the spot for treating women as objects.

“Go and bring out the gold,” Han Wu instructed, his tone colder.

The bandit leader didn’t dare object and let them into a small vault filled with gold and jewelry stolen from others.

“Everything is here,” he said in a low voice.

Han Wu poured them all into the urn at his waist. It didn’t even fill half of it, so he growled, “That’s not enough.”

𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

The bandit leader whimpered. “I don’t have any more money!”

Han Wu controlled the Small Locust Blades and shaved off paper-thin strips of flesh from the bandit leader. The man watched them fall away, and a stinging pain spread through his body.

“Not enough!” Han Wu’s voice was harsh and left no room for defiance.

The bandit leader quickly replied, “Yes, I will take you to more.”

He endured the pain and led them to a large painting of a fat man. A name was inscribed on it: Liu Chunlai. He respectfully rolled up the painting to reveal a hidden compartment behind it. Inside sat a small box containing a pearl.

The bandit leader explained, “This pearl is worth at least 1,000 gold coins. I was going to offer it to General Liu from Divine Weapon City.”

Han Wu took the box and confirmed that the pearl was of God grade. The man was speaking the truth.

He kept the pearl and turned back to the bandit leader. “That’s not enough.”

The bandit leader cried, “Why not? You have more than enough!”

Han Wu glared at him. “I said not enough!”

The man felt his heart pound. “I... I have something else.”

He took down Liu Chunlai’s painting and removed a deed from within the scroll. His voice trembled as he explained, “This is the deed to a prime piece of land outside Divine Weapon City. It’s worth 20,000 gold coins!”

That wealth represented forty years of accumulation, the combined effort of both him and his father. They had waited for the day they could abandon banditry and live in Divine Weapon City as a wealthy family. To survive today, however, he had no choice but to give everything away.

Han Wu took the deed and pressed, “That’s not enough.”

“That’s enough! I really don’t have anything else.” At this point, the bandit leader sobbed. He knew that his chances of surviving were slim, yet for that slim hope, he was willing to sacrifice everything.

Still, it wasn’t enough for Han Wu.

“That’s not enough for the women you have bullied and those you’ve killed.” He controlled the Small Locust Blade as it wove around the bandit leader.

The blade shaved the bandit leader’s flesh away bit by bit. The pain drove him to cry out. Han Wu severed his vocal cords, leaving him to scream in silence.

With practiced precision, Han Wu removed only enough flesh to inflict pain without killing him. The muscular bandit leader was reduced to a skinny, blood-soaked figure.

Even then, Han Wu did not release him. He summoned the two women into the room and handed them a bowl of salt.

The women, who had endured prolonged humiliation and torture, had grown numb to external sensation. Yet the sight of the bandit leader shattered the restraints in their hearts. They lost control and hurled the salt over his body without restraint.

The salt bit into the raw wounds and intensified the agony. The bandit leader’s body twitched and convulsed under the pain. It was a fate worse than death.

The women wept as they finally took their revenge. They had at last avenged their families, yet the bandit leader did not die on the spot.

Han Wu ensured he would remain alive for twelve more hours, even as the salt cured his wounds. For every second of those twelve hours, he would endure pain unlike anything he had ever known.

Han Wu didn’t believe he had gone too far in dealing with such an evil bastard. Qin Shuang agreed. She wanted to punish every single bandit in this village, but Han Wu’s energy was limited, and the Small Locust Blades had limited durability.

As such, Qin Shuang decided to deliver justice to this evil village with her lightning. She summoned her Feather Dart and multiplied it to its limit.

Tens of thousands of Feather Darts filled the sky, covering the village like a storm cloud charged with lightning. At her command, they plunged downward toward the bandits. Powerful arcs of lightning surged through every inch of the village, destroying every single evil entity there.